The recent arrest of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges has shocked many people. The FBI secretively recorded Blagojevich on tape talking about selling the senate seat to the heist bidder. The senate seat up for sell was the seat that president elect Barack Obama vacated when he won the presidency.

Blagojevich being the governor had the power to appoint a person to become the new senator of the vacated seat without the need for an election.

On the tape Blagojevich says that there are five candidates who want the seat, and he said that out of all the candidates number 5 will surely be willing to pay money for the senate seat. Number five turns out to be Jesse Jackson jr. and Jesse claims he knew nothing about the pay to play politics of the governor.

Jesse Jackson jr.: “I want to make this fact plain: I reject and denounce pay-to-play politics and have no involvement whatsoever in any wrongdoing. I did not initiate or authorize anyone at any time to promise anything to Gov. Blagojevich,” Jackson, an Illinois Democrat, said during a Capitol Hill press conference Wednesday December 5, 2008..

This scandal does make it harder for Jackson to get the senate seat, and it is all — because of the governor mentioning his name even though Jackson was not aware of the governor’s intent to sell.

Many black politicians have to be careful, because there are some people who are angry because Obama was elected president. Barack Obama being a biracial who is mixed with black makes some people uncomfortable.

So black politicians need to be aware that in the back of certain other people’s minds they don’t want to see another president in the future who is black or mixed with black. So getting caught up in scandals help ruin the opportunity for potential black presidents of the future.

Blacks politicians and mixed race politicians who are mixed with black need to be careful and avoid scandals.

Among Christians it is taught that the resurrection is a one time event, and those souls who have done good will be raised, while those who have done evil will be sent to hell. In other religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, and Judaism the doctrine of reincarnation is taught. The Christian resurrection teaches, that when the Christ comes on Judgment day we are raised from the dead (grave), and if we have done good we go to heaven if we have done evil we go to hell.

Well in reality judgment day is everyday of your life. In life you receive good and bad things in life. A lot of the good and bad that comes to you – you will notice that you have done good somewhere and bad somewhere in life. So your judgments manifest throughout your life. Judgments are like rewards they cane be good or bad.

The God who judges you after death is your own inner God who lives in your heart. Each individual is judged based upon his or her deeds (actions). It is taught in religious esoteric traditions teach that when a person dies he is in a coma unconscious for three and a half days (3 ½ days). During this 3 ½ days the soul relives its entire life backwards (the life it just died from).

The soul sees all of the scenes of it’s like a movie played right in front of it. When it sees a scene that it did good in — it experiences happiness on the inside, but the soul sees a scene where it did something wrong, it experiences a deep profound inner sadness.

Seeing the life just lived backwards means that instead of seeing its self from the moment it came from its mother’s womb, all the way up until it died, the soul reviews its life from the moment it died, going all the way up until it came from its mother’s womb.

Once this process of reviewing the life just lived is over then God (the inner father) brings the soul out of the coma (unconscious), and tells the soul what is going to happen to it. The soul is in its astral body because it no longer has a physical body.

Bring a soul out of this coma is a type of resurrection (resuscitation means to reawake).
If the soul is not sent to hell or heaven then the soul reincarnates into a new human body. In some religious traditions like Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism souls can also reincarnate as animal, ocean creatures like fish and other ocean animals, plants, and minerals if the have bad karma but are going to be sent to hell.

So they pay some of their bad karma by becoming animals, plants, etc after they die they then reincarnate into a human body. Souls that have been trained on earth in esoteric religious centers and brotherhoods on how to develop consciousness to recognize the signs of death usually don’t fall into a coma after death.

The reason is, because these advanced souls have been trained how to awaken (develop) consciousness to a high degree and therefore, avoid going into a coma after death. Because of their developed awakened consciousness they see light when they see this light they don’t run from it they go towards it, and encounter it and this leads them to liberation and to heaven. A person who has not been trained in how to develop consciousness when they die and see the light they become afraid of it and faint into unconsciousness (coma).

Tibetan lamas often practice mediation and other spiritual excise to awaken. The Tibetan book of the dead deals with the bardos, and the word bardo means gap. Death is a gap. The Tibetan lamas try to master theses seven gaps (bardos) that exist in consciousness and sleep is a gap. If the Lama learns how to awaken consciousness while his physical body sleeps he knows that when his body dies he will still be conscious and not fall into unconsciousness (coma) after death.

In the year 325 AD Emperor Constantine 1 (Constantine the great) held a council meeting in the city of Nicea (also known as Nicaea). He invited the top religious leaders of all the various sects of Christianity to come and discuss the future of Christianity. The Roman Empire at the time of Constantine 1 had people from all religious backgrounds.

There were Christians, pagans, people who followed the old roman pagan religion, and Judaism. At the end of the council meeting it was decided that Christianity would become the official religion of the Roman Empire under Constantine 1, and Constantine also passed law that said people must be tolerate of other people’s religions and not mistreat them for it.

At the council of Nicea meeting Christianity and became the official new religion of the Roman Empire replacing as time went on the old pagan roman religion. And, Jesus the Christ became the recognized religious prophet of the Christian religion.

We are now in the 21 st century, and from what I see it time for something new. Christianity needs a new awakening if it is to remain relevant in the world. It has hit the cross road where all of the old pagan religions hit long ago.

Many people of the Christian faith no longer are moved emotionally by it. They follow the precepts of Christianity sporadically. Christianity no longer has the emotional fire that it once had to influence the people greatly. There’re many weak souls out there who participate in Christianity but have no spiritual inner development.

They are weak because they lack inner spiritual development, and this is mainly due to religious ministers’ lack a high degree on inner soul development. You can’t give what you never had, and you never miss what you never had. One of the reasons many people leave Christianity and go become Buddhist, Hindu, practice yoga, become Muslims, etc is because they no longer feel that Christianity serves their needs.

What makes these other religions so appealing is, the fact they teach the esoteric side of themselves. All religions have two sides exoteric and esoteric. The exoteric is the public and basic teaching and the esoteric is the secret hidden teachings. There are degrees of esotericism, some followers of various religions only touch the very basic esoteric side of their religion and others go deeper.

Most Christians in general only, know of the exoteric side of Christianity, and this is because their religious leaders don’t know the esoteric side Christianity called gnosis. Gnosis includes teachings of the Jewish Kabbalah. Long ago many Christians were called Gnostics and they knew Kabbalah which is a part of the esoteric teachings of Christianity.

The council of Nicea did make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire but also at that council meeting they changed many of the teachings of the Gnostic Christians. The council removed certain books from the bible also. The doctrine of reincarnation was also taught by Gnostic Christians. The Roman Catholic Church decided to remove the doctrine of reincarnation out of Christianity, and taught the people that they only live once, and must do well in this life time so they could go to heaven. Removing the doctrine of reincarnation only helped the church get more control over the people.

So I say bring back gnosis and feed the souls of the people who have been starved spiritually. It’s time for Christianity to have a reawakening. It is good to study as many religions as possible. Let the sun rise “oh’ let the moon glow, and sit by the river and drink the water of knowledge.

]]>https://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/christianity-needs-a-reawakening/feed/1ChanceBlacks need more Cultural Representationshttps://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/blacks-need-more-cultural-representations/
https://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/blacks-need-more-cultural-representations/#respondSat, 06 Dec 2008 12:04:49 +0000http://chancellorfiles.com/blog1/2008/12/06/blacks-need-more-cultural-representations/Why is it so easy to stereotype African Americans? The reason it’s easy to stereotype them — is because they don’t have enough cultural representations among them. It’s hard to stereotype whites into one big hole because whites have a lot of cultural representations among them. When you think of blacks often what comes to mind if hip hop culture, clothes, civil rights, pro black ideology, comedy, negativity, slavery, gangs, drugs, violence, pain and suffering, and racism (people discriminating against them).

Yes, there are blacks who participate in a variety of other activities, but their numbers are very small, and therefore, don’t make a major impact on the general black American society. If the number of blacks where to increase in participation in a variety of cultural representations then it would be hard to stereotype blacks into a corner. When you get stereotyped into a corner that means that you are predictable.

Being stereotyped can be good if some of cultural representations are good. If too many representations are the opposite they will cause you to suffer. Hip hop culture in the late 1970s did not have a lot of people participating in it. But when the 1980s can along millions of blacks and people from other ethnicities where participating in it.

Therefore, hip hop music culture became a new representation and look how powerful it has become all over the world. Blacks need more representations, and then it will be hard to stereotype them.

]]>https://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/blacks-need-more-cultural-representations/feed/0ChanceRecord number of Americans using food stamps: reporthttps://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/record-number-of-americans-using-food-stamps-report/
https://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/record-number-of-americans-using-food-stamps-report/#respondThu, 04 Dec 2008 09:30:37 +0000http://chancellorfiles.com/blog1/2008/12/04/record-number-of-americans-using-food-stamps-report/Chance: Now many Americans regardless of their ethnic background need food stamps and government welfare. So now no racial group can look down on another and claim that they are better. They can’t accuse one ethnic group of being of welfare and eating up tax payers dollars. The law of karma is showing Americans that looking down on others who have many members of their ethnicity on welfare is not right. Now they have been brought low due to a bad economy, and we are all equal now meaning in need of the government.

By Roberta Rampton Roberta Rampton – Wed Dec 3,

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Food stamps, the main U.S. antihunger program which helps the needy buy food, set a record in September as more than 31.5 million Americans used the program — up 17 percent from a year ago, according to government data.

The number of people using food stamps in September surpassed the previous peak of 29.85 million seen in November 2005 when victims of hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma received emergency benefits, said Jean Daniel of the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service.

September’s tally — the latest month available — was also boosted by hurricane and flood aid, Daniel said on Wednesday.

But anti-hunger groups said the economic downturn is the main reason behind the higher figures.

"It’s a disturbing trend," said Ellen Vollinger, legal director with the Food Research and Action Center. She said she expects more people will turn to food stamps as unemployment figures rise and the economy remains weak.

One in 10 Americans were participating in the food stamp program as of September, said Dottie Rosenbaum, analyst with Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a think tank.

That’s approaching the all-time high of 10.5 percent of the population that used the program in 1994, and is similar to levels seen in the early 1980s, she said.

States that have seen a drop in job numbers and increase in home foreclosures such as Florida and Nevada also have seen a marked increase in food stamp use, Rosenbaum said.

Food banks are struggling to meet increased requests for food, said Maura Daly of Feeding America, a network of food banks.

"The tough economic time that our nation is facing is having a tremendous impact on the level of food assistance needed across the country," Daly said.

On average, people who used food stamps received $100 per month in benefits in September. That increased slightly in October to account for higher food prices, but hunger groups said the benefits still don’t go far enough at a time of high food prices and home heating costs.

Last month, the USDA said 36.2 million Americans or 11 percent of households struggle to get enough food to eat, and one-third of them had to sometimes skip or cut back on meals.

Hunger groups want Congress and the new administration to increase food stamp benefits as part of an economic stimulus package they hope will come in early 2009.

The benefits go directly to people who spend it at local grocery stores, supporting businesses and jobs, said Vollinger of the Food Research and Action Center.

"They (the benefits) don’t sit in a pocket," she said, pointing to USDA estimates that $5 in food stamp spending generates $9 in economic activity.

Chance notes: According to the New Yorker Prince said: On the opposite end of the spectrum you’ve got blue, you’ve got the Democrats, and they’re, like, ‘You can do whatever you want.’ Gay marriage, whatever. But neither of them is right.” When asked about his perspective on social issues—gay marriage, abortion—Prince tapped his Bible and said, “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough.’

The New Yorker did a behind the scenes interview with Claire Hoffman and Hoffman said that Prince said he wasn’t black, and he also said he did not vote in earthly contest like the presidential election between Barack Obama and John McCain.

Claire Hoffman: He told me he didn’t have a horse in the November election and that he didn’t believe in getting involved with these kind of earthly contests.
Claire Hoffman: I had asked him if the fact that Obama was black didn’t compel him to get involved.

He said, “Why?”

And I said, Well, because you’re black.

And he said “Am I?” and held up his wrist next to my ruddy one. Indeed his skin was lighter, and he cracked up.

Prince is definitely his own man, and does what he prefers.

Soup With Prince
by Claire Hoffman

Claire Hoffman interviewed Prince for the New Yorker

The thirty-thousand-square-foot Italianate villa, built this century by Vanna White’s ex-husband, looks like many of the other houses in Beverly Park, a gated community in L.A., except for the bright-purple carpet that spills down the front steps to announce its new tenant: Prince. One afternoon just before the election, Prince invited a visitor over. Inside, the place was done up in a generic Mediterranean style, although there were personal flourishes here and there—a Lucite grand piano with a gold-colored “Artist Formerly Known as Prince” symbol suspended over it, purple paisley pillows on a couch. Candles scented the air, and New Age music played in the living room, where a TV screen showed images of bearded men playing flutes. Prince padded into the kitchen, a small fifty-year-old man in yoga pants and a big sweater, wearing platform flip-flops over white socks, like a geisha.

“Would you like something to eat?” he asked, sidling up to the counter. Prince’s voice was surprisingly deep, like that of a much larger man. He picked up a copy of “21 Nights,” a glossy volume of photographs that he had just released. It is his first published book, a collection of highly stylized photographs of him taken during a series of gigs in London last year. “I’m really proud of this,” he said. Short original poems and a CD accompany the photographs. (Sample verse: “Who eye really am only time will tell/ 2 the almighty life 4ce that grows stronger with every chorus/ Yes give praise, lest ye b among . . . the guilty ones.”)

Limping slightly, Prince set off on a walk around his new bachelor pad. Glass doors opened onto acres of back yard, and a hot tub bubbled in the sunlight. “I have a lot of parties,” he explained. In the living room, he’d installed purple thrones on either side of a fireplace, and, nearby, along a hallway, he had hung photographs of himself, in a Moroccan villa, in various states of undress. At the end of the hall, a gauzy curtain fluttered in a doorway. “My room,” he said. “It’s private.”

Prince has lived in Los Angeles since last spring, after spending years in Minneapolis, holding court in a complex called Paisley Park, where he made thousands of songs, far away from the big labels. Seven years ago, he became a Jehovah’s Witness. He said that he had moved to L.A. so that he could understand the hearts and minds of the music moguls. “I wanted to be around people, connected to people, for work,” he said. “You know, it’s all about religion. That’s what unites people here. They all have the same religion, so I wanted to sit down with them, to understand the way they see things, how they read Scripture.”

Prince had his change of faith, he said, after a two-year-long debate with a musician friend, Larry Graham. “I don’t see it really as a conversion,” he said. “More, you know, it’s a realization. It’s like Morpheus and Neo in ‘The Matrix.’ ” He attends meetings at a local Kingdom Hall, and, like his fellow-witnesses, he leaves his gated community from time to time to knock on doors and proselytize. “Sometimes people act surprised, but mostly they’re really cool about it,” he said.

Recently, Prince hosted an executive who works for Philip Anschutz, the Christian businessman whose company owns the Staples Center. “We started talking red and blue,” Prince said. “People with money—money like that—are not affected by the stock market, and they’re not freaking out over anything. They’re just watching. So here’s how it is: you’ve got the Republicans, and basically they want to live according to this.” He pointed to a Bible. “But there’s the problem of interpretation, and you’ve got some churches, some people, basically doing things and saying it comes from here, but it doesn’t. And then on the opposite end of the spectrum you’ve got blue, you’ve got the Democrats, and they’re, like, ‘You can do whatever you want.’ Gay marriage, whatever. But neither of them is right.”

When asked about his perspective on social issues—gay marriage, abortion—Prince tapped his Bible and said, “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough.’ ”

Later, in the dining room, eating a bowl of carrot soup, he talked about an encounter that he described as a “teaching moment.” “There was this woman. She used to come to Paisley Park and just sit outside on the swings,” he said. “So I went out there one day and I was, like, ‘Hey, all my friends in there say you’re a stalker. And that I should call the police. But I don’t want to do that, so why don’t you tell me what you want to happen. Why are you here? How do you want this to end?’ And she didn’t really have an answer for that. In the end, all she wanted was to be seen, for me to look at her. And she left and didn’t come back.”Read original story Soup With Prince

November 17, 2008

Behind the Scenes: Glamorous Life

This week, in Talk of the Town, Claire Hoffman visits the home of Prince. He lives in a thirty-thousand-square-foot Italianate villa, built by Vanna White’s ex-husband. Hoffman talks about what it was like to meet Prince, and shares a couple of prints from his new book, “21 Nights,” a collection of stylized portraits taken while Prince was in London last year.

You had some colorful descriptions of Prince’s home: Bright-purple carpets, a Lucite grand piano, bearded men playing flutes. Is this how you imagined Prince’s home to be?

I think I imagined everything about Prince would be more bizarre, dare I even say celestial. I’ve been listening to Prince ever since I started listening to music so he’s less an artist to me and more a sort of galactic overlord. So to show up at his house and have it smell like a Pottery Barn showroom and hear Yanni on the TV was sort of shocking.

In his defense, Prince hasn’t lived there long. I got the sense that he had a sort of make-a-home-for-Prince suitcase that someone else had unpacked—a little purple velvet there, a statue here, and voila!

In your interview, Prince said the following about gay marriage: “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was like, ‘Enough.’” Did you two have a more in-depth conversation about this?

I was a little surprised when he said it, because he has always seemed so unrestricted sexually.

We were having a larger conversation about his belief system and his politics. He told me he didn’t have a horse in the November election and that he didn’t believe in getting involved with these kind of earthly contests. I had asked him if the fact that Obama was black didn’t compel him to get involved.

He said, “Why?”

And I said, Well, because you’re black.

And he said “Am I?” and held up his wrist next to my ruddy one. Indeed his skin was lighter, and he cracked up.

Anyway, he walked me into his library and opened a Bible up to the Sermon on the Mount, and that’s when he got to talking about trying to live Biblically. For what it’s worth, the way he said it wasn’t hateful so much as sad and resigned. Prince is a true believer, and I think that’s important to keep in mind in hearing his viewpoint.

We’re showing our readers some of the photographs from “21 Nights.” Are they like the photographs he has hanging in his house in, as you put it, “various states of undress”?

I interviewed the photographer, Randee St. Nicholas, who has photographed and made videos of practically every big-name celebrity. The thing she said about Prince that stuck with me was that he sees women in a way that most men don’t. He looks right at them. I felt that—he’s strangely considerate. In person, I found Prince humble and down to earth—if you closed your eyes you could imagine he was your fat old uncle and you were on the way to a (vegetarian) BBQ.

]]>https://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/soup-with-prince/feed/2ChancePrinceWanda Sykes says she’s ‘proud to be gay’https://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/wanda-sykes-says-shes-proud-to-be-gay/
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Wanda Sykes has now admitted publicly that she is gay, some people found this to be no surprise. I remember when Ellen Degeneres came out and said that she was gay/lesbian. When I first saw Ellen years before she announced that she was gay, I thought she was a lesbian.

I remember in early 1990s Ellen on television mentioning something about her boyfriend and I said to myself you like lesbian (gay). Wanda kept her life style to herself and she didn’t go around screaming hey I’m gay to everybody she saw. Wanda has class about herself.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Comedian Wanda Sykes says the passage of a same-sex marriage ban in California has led to her be more outspoken about being gay.

"You know, I don’t really talk about my sexual orientation. I didn’t feel like I had to. I was just living my life, not necessarily in the closet, but I was living my life," Sykes told a crowd at a gay rights rally in Las Vegas on Saturday.

"Everybody that knows me personally they know I’m gay. But that’s the way people should be able to live their lives," she said.

Sykes, who is known for her feisty and blunt style, said the passage of California’s Proposition 8 made her feel like she was "attacked."

"Now, I gotta get in their face," she said. "I’m proud to be a woman. I’m proud to be a black woman, and I’m proud to be gay."

Sykes’ appearance at the Las Vegas rally surprised organizers. She was in town performing at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

]]>https://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/wanda-sykes-says-shes-proud-to-be-gay/feed/2ChanceWanda SykesPowell, Obama, and Their not Born African American Advantagehttps://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/powell-obama-and-their-not-born-african-american-advantage/
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Powell, Obama, and Their not Born African American Advantage

In the 1995 republican presidential nominee race many conservative republicans wanted Colin Powell to run as the republican candidate. If Powell had run and won the nomination he would have run against President Bill Clinton in 1996. He refused to be a candidate, he said he had no passion for politics. Barack Obama was elected president and it possibly could have been Colin Powell who would have become the first black president (president with visible black ancestry).

How come white conservatives felt comfortable with Obama and Powell being presidential nominees but not Rev Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, black republican Alan Keyes, and other African American candidates?

The reason is because Obama and Powell were not born to African American parents.

Colin Powell’s father and mother came from Jamaica, and Colin was born in Harlem, New York in America. Therefore, he is not an African American by birth. He is a Jamaican Caribbean American by birth. He is first generation American, and the child of two Jamaican immigrant parents. He has grown up in black American culture but he is not a black American by birth, and this not being a black American by birth counts in the eyes of white conservatives.

Barack Obama is not an African American by birth either — his father was a black man from Kenya, Africa and his mother was a white American. Obama is biracial and Colin Powell is a multigenerational mixed race man. Powell has white and black ancestors in his family tree. Powell is a republican and Obama is a Democrat, and the fact that many conservatives liked both of them shows that it was the fact that they were not African Americans by birth.

Powell had grown up culturally African American but not African American by birth. Obama had grown up in an Indonesian culture and white American culture but was not African American by birth or culture. This proves, that it was the fact, that both had not been born to African American parents or one African American parent that gave them the advantage of being liked by whites.

Obama and Powell do not come across as hostile and angry at America for all of the injustices that America has done to people of black ancestry. Powell has criticized former republican president Ronald Regan’s administration. Powell said that the Regan administration was very racist, and even after saying this many white conservatives still wanted him to become president.

It’s the way he said it, he said it with no hatred in his heart, and they can sense that. Whites feel that a person born African American would be hostile and use the presidency to seek revenge on whites if elected. The reality is also, that Obama is not the first African American president. He is the first biracial president with black ancestry because he has no African American parent. When will there be an African American president born biracial with an african american parent or two African American parents? So not being born an African American was is a benefit to both men.

]]>https://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/powell-obama-and-their-not-born-african-american-advantage/feed/14ChanceIt Pays To Be a Mexican Vendorhttps://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/it-pays-to-be-a-mexican/
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In California and other states a Mexican sells apples, oranges, mangos, fruits, flowers, and sometimes other items on side of the freeway. Cars stop at the intersection and some motorists buy these items from the Mexican vendor. Also sometimes the latinos selling fruits, flowers, and other items are from south & Central American countries like El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua. Often these Hispanics are illegal immigrants.

You also see them on the side walks with vending carts selling hot dogs, tacos, sodas, and other foods from various Hispanic countries according to where they came from. You can see them posted on the side walk selling AA and AAA batteries, umbrellas, toys, and other items. The majority of these latinos doing the selling have no permits (license) to work as vendors.

Also notice the local police or sheriff seldom bother to arrests many of these latinos or tell them to close shop and go home due to not having a vendors permit. There are many reasons for this.

1. We get use to seeing them do it some we become complacent and just accept that they do it.

2. There are too many latinos working as an illegal vendors, and not enough police to stop them.

3. In certain cities or towns latinos are the majority and can complain to local latino politicians who are on the city council, mayor, latino police chief or latino Sheriff etc to help them. This fear of latinos in power helps in some cases keep law enforcement from enforcing the law against illegal Hispanic street vendors.

4. Many Americans regardless of racial background have bough things from illegal latino vendors and by doing this helps keep them in business.

5. They sell items at a low price and these items are simple items that would cost more if we went to a regular store.

Now often if an American did the samething with out a vendors permit the police would write him or her a ticket. It is easier to get Americans because not too many Americans work as street vendors without license. It is harder to get latinos because there are many of them working with out a license (permit). So latinos are lucky because there are too many of them to police and they live in areas where the latinos population is large.

These people often are just trying to make a living. All ethnic groups are allowed to get away with something if enough of their members do it. So it pays to be a Mexican when it comes to certain things.

A collective sigh of relief could be heard from Europe last week after Barack Obama emerged victorious; there is no doubting the fervent European desire to relegate the Bush doctrine to history and to return to a more collegial relationship with the White House. Yet Mr Obama’s welcome has been accompanied by unhappier undercurrents.

It is not so long ago that Austria’s rightwingers used to campaign on the slogan: “Vienna must not become Chicago”. They were not the only Europeans to become more xenophobic with the end of the cold war. But they were perhaps the only ones to link their detestation of the new immigrants from the Middle East and eastern Europe to hoary images of race riots and organised crime drawn from America’s bad old days.

Now that an African-American from Chicago is set to become president in Washington, not everyone in Vienna is happy. In an extraordinary on-air outburst, Klaus Emmerich, the veteran Austrian television pundit, declared: “I would not want the western world to be directed by a black man.” When invited to retract, Mr Emmerich stood by what he had said, adding that “blacks aren’t as politically civilised” and pouring fuel on to the fire by hinting that Mr Obama’s “rhetorical brilliance” and ability in organising a movement made him comparable to infamous demagogues from the past. America’s choice, Mr Emmerich concluded, was as misplaced as a Turk becoming the next chancellor of Austria.

His comments were greeted by a storm of criticism, just as Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi’s “joke” about Mr Obama’s “sun tan” had been: two elderly men betraying their generational prejudices, one might think. Yet the underlying problem goes deeper. A comment such as Mr Emmerich’s would be political suicide in the US; in Austria it earned little more than a slap on the wrist. How is it that while both places have their fair share of racism, one finds such contrasting public and political responses?

One difference is that in Europe today truly to belong still means being white. “Do you feel yourself to be British?” BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman asked a young black London rapper after Mr Obama’s victory. Europeans find it hard adjusting to a colour-blind world. Indeed their hesitancy is growing. In Austria, the extreme right carved out big gains in September’s general elections. Pope Benedict weighed in over the summer to warn against a possible resurgence of fascist values in Italy. Europe as a whole, according to recent polls, has become significantly more xenophobic over the past few years. Fears of Islamic terrorism and anxiety about globalisation have fed this trend. So has fervent anti-European Union sentiment, strongly correlated to populist anti-immigrant rhetoric. By contrast, Mr Obama’s story is that of the immigrant dream, a tale of upwardly-mobile success that cut decisively across race lines. Immigrant voters played a decisive electoral role in Mr Obama’s win, yet immigration—for all the prior public debate—figured little as a campaign issue.

Culturally, globalisation is pushing many Europeans—whether pro- or anti-Europe—into a kind of conservatism. As the continent struggles with the task of turning itself into a political force capable of acting on the world stage alongside former colonies such as the US and India, or rising powers such as China, its elites fall back on memories of a time when Europe taught the world its values. “Blacks aren’t as politically civilised,” claimed Mr Emmerich. Not long ago, such frank racism was unremarkable—on both sides of the Atlantic. Today, it is much rarer. Yet too many Europeans still talk and act as though their task is to shore up western civilisation against the barbarians whether by defending some vision of the Enlightenment against religious fanatics, or by defending Christendom against its historical enemies. An immigrant of Turkish descent as leader of Austria? Why, that would signify that Vienna’s long struggle against the Ottomans had all been in vain.

History can be cruel. Generations of Europeans grew up with the goal of ethnic homogeneity as one nation after another across the continent tried to purify itself. The huge population transfers, expulsions and killings of the 1940s reflected the fact that both the Nazis and their opponents believed that minorities were a source of political instability. By 1950, they had all but disappeared across much of central and eastern Europe. Yet almost at once, postwar growth brought new minorities in—first into western Europe and now further east. The result is a kind of cognitive dissonance. Europeans inhabit increasingly globalised multi-ethnic societies; yet their attitudes remain shaped by a 19th-century mindset. Vienna is not yet Chicago. But it cannot get there a moment too soon.

It was 177 years ago that Nat Turner was hung in Virginia for leading an insurrection and killed fifty five whites (white men, women and children). Nat and the black men with him struck fear in hearts of whites living in Virginia when word spreaded about what they had dome to whites. Some believe that Nat was gay others feel he was bisexual, while some believe he was heterosexual and the rumors about him being gay are made up and false.

5 feet 6 or 8 inches high, weighs between 150 and 160 pounds, rather bright complexion, but not a mulatto, broad shoulders, larger flat nose, large eyes, broad flat feet, rather knockneed, walks brisk and active, hair on the top of the head very thin, no beard, except on the upper lip and the top of the chin, a scar on one of his temples, also one on the back of his neck, a large knot on one of the bones of his right arm, near the wrist, produced by a blow (Description of Turner included in $500 reward notice in the Washington National Intelligencer on September 24, 1831, quoted in Aptheker, American Negro Slave Revolts, p. 294.)

The Governor James Monroe of Virginia said that Nat was of a bright complexion but not a mulatto. The governor’s use of the expression not a mulatto means that Nat could not pass for white. Below is an excerpt from the confession of Nat Turner, where Nat aleaggaly spoke about his homosexual expeerince with his friend named Willis.

Nat Turner: "One day, his finger pricked by a hook or the sharp spine of a fish, Willis cried out—’fuckin’ Jesus!’ he yelled—and so swiftly that I hardly knew what I was doing I rapped him sharply across the lips, drawing a tiny runnel of blood. ‘A filthy mouth is an abomination unto the Lord!’ I said. His face wore a broken, hurt look and he reached up to lightly finger the place where I had struck him. His round eyes were soft and childlike, trusting, and suddenly I felt a pang of guilt and pain at my anger, and a rush of pity swept through me, mingled with a hungry tenderness that stirred me in a way I have never known. Willis said nothing, his eyes were brimming with tears; I saw the moccasin fangs dangling at his neck, bone-white and startling against his shiny bare black chest. I reached up to wipe away the blood from his lips, pulling him near with the feel of his shoulders slippery beneath my hand, and then we somehow fell on each other, very close, soft and comfortable in a sprawl like babies; beneath my exploring fingers his hot skin throbbed and pulsed like the throat of a pigeon, and I heard him sigh in a faraway voice, and then for a long moment as if set free into another land we did with our hands together what, before, I had done alone. Never had I known that human flesh could be so sweet.

Minutes afterward I heard Willis murmur: ‘Man, I sho liked dat. Want to do it again?’

For a time I couldn’t bring myself to look at him, averting my eyes, keeping my gaze up toward the sun through leaves atremble like a forest of green fluttering moths. Finally I said: ‘The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.’" – The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron, 1967

Skin Complexion During Slavery

Nat Turner and Skin Complexion

It’s also believed by some researchers and scholars that Nat Turner’s father was a white man, and that Nat grew up with his stepfather and biological mother. He considered his stepfather to be his real dad since he never knew his real father.

Nat was light skinned meaning he had a skin complexion that was yellow, yellowish brown or whitish beige. The way we can tell is because Governor James Monroe knew the difference between various skin complexion among blacks and mixed race people who had some black ancestry. Monroe knew that there where mulattoes who could pass for white and mulattoes who could not.

He knew the skin complexion difference between a brown skin black and a light skin black. Often many light skin blacks who could not pass for white where either biracial or had a relative or relatives who had been biracial mulattoes.

Slave revolt leader Gabriel Brown

1775 – 1800

Governor James Monroe: "..Gabriel is a Negro of a brown complexion about 6 feet 3 or 4 inches high, a bony face, well made, and very active, has two or three scars on his head, his hair is very short…He can read and write, and perhaps will forge himself a pass, or certificate of his freedom… (Proclamation Governor James Monroe September 9, 1800

Gabriel was captured and executed. But the fact that Governor Monroe described Gabriel as a brown skin black man means and Nat Turner as having a bright complexion (light skin) proves that Nat was lighter than a brown skin black. This brown skin complexion is also known among black Americans as caramel brown skin. This proves that whites and blacks knew of skin complexion differences among blacks and those mixed race people who where mixed with black.

This also shows that Governor James Monroe and people both black and white of his time knew the difference between the various mulatto phenotypes (physical appearance) also. They knew that there were mulattoes who had quadroonic and octoroonic phenotypes that allowed them pass for white. And that there were mulattoes who could not pass for white but could pass for another race like Arab, Latino, etc and there were mulattoes whose black ancestry was visible.

Dark skin, brown skin, light skin, and mulattoes whites where fully aware of all of these various shades of complexions.

Among humans there are always members of certain ethnic groups that don’t like certain members of other ethnic groups. And, Latinos are no exception when it comes to this. It is know that Mexicans and Salvadorans don’t always get along. Also Mexicans have a reputation of not getting along with Latinos who are from central and South American countries.

In America Mexican and Salvadoran immigrants sometimes argue, disrespect, and fight with each other. Why is this? There are reasons for this conflict between the two groups. According to Salvadorans Mexicans have an attitude that they are superior to Salvadoreans. Also, many Central and South Americans Latinos feel that Mexicans think that they are superior to other Latinos too.

When many Salvadoran women leave El Salvador and enter Mexico, some o9f these women get raped by Mexican men, beaten, called derogatory names because they come from El Salvador. Often these women are passing through Mexico headed for the United States of America to live in search of a better living standards.. Some come to Mexico to live in search of a better future.

These women write or call home to relatives in EL Salvadoran and tell them what happened. If they have relatives in America, when they get to America they tell them what happened. This makes a lot of Salvadoran men angry at Mexican men, and creates the tension and conflicts between the two. On top of that Mexican men feeling superior, and claiming they are better only makes things worse.

Mexican men also rape, disrespect, and beat women from other Central and South American countries when they also come to Mexico headed to the United States. Latinos both women and men from Central and South America need to be very careful when entering Mexico or any other country when trying to get to America. Talk to other Latinos in their home countries to find the safest way through Mexico so they can avoid being mistreated.

]]>https://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/why-salvadorans-don%e2%80%99t-like-mexicans/feed/1ChanceObama Win Triggers Rise in Gun Saleshttps://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/obama-win-triggers-rise-in-gun-sales/
https://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/obama-win-triggers-rise-in-gun-sales/#respondMon, 17 Nov 2008 12:20:37 +0000http://chancellorfiles.com/blog1/2008/11/17/obama-win-triggers-rise-in-gun-sales/Chance: Obama win triggers Rise in Gun Sales When Obama was elected president there was an increase in gun sales in various states throughout America. Some people say it is because citizens have been informed that Barack Obama is anti guns and will use his power as president to make sure that guns laws become tougher by banning many types of guns.

The guns that are allowed people feel he will make it harder to purchase them due to strict requirements. Then some Americans feel that other people went and bout guns because they fear a race riot. With Obama being biracial and mixed with black ancestry certain whites feel blacks will become more bold and dangerous towards whites. I feel that many people bought guns for many reasons.

One of those reasons is some people fear a race war more than fear that Obama would create tougher gun laws. Gun stores throughout America have been interviewed by various news media agencies and reported that they have seen an incredible increase in gun sales.

Obama has said he will not take people’s shotguns away but at the sametime he said he favors common sense gun laws. African Americans and other ethnic groups might also go by more guns just in case then. I feel also that some of the white people, who went and bought guns in case of a race war, also voted for Obama themselves. Time will reveal.

HOUSTON — A week after the election of Barack Obama, gun buyers across the country are voting with their feet, flocking to gun stores to stock up on assault rifles, handguns and ammunition. Some say they are worried that the incoming Obama administration will attempt to reimpose the ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004. Others fear the loss of their right to own handguns.

A few say they are preparing to protect themselves in the event of a race war. But whatever the reason, gun dealers in red and blue states alike say they’ve never seen anything like the run on weaponry they’ve been experiencing since Election Day— surpassing even the panic buying in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. "People are terrified of losing their right to protect themselves," said DeWayne Irwin, owner of Cheaper Than Dirt, a large gun store in Ft. Worth.

"The volume is 10 times what we ever expected. It started with assault rifles, but at this point people are buying ammunition, high-capacity magazines, Glocks—it’s all flying off the shelf. With the economy the way it is, people are worried about instability. They are scared of civil unrest." There are no nationwide figures on gun sales available yet to document a post-election trend, and the number of pre-purchase background checks conducted by the FBI—a major barometer of national gun sales—actually rose more slowly through Oct. 31 of this year than during comparable periods in 2007 and 2006.

But anecdotal reports from around the nation suggest the sudden surge of November gun-buying is far surpassing the normal hunting-season spike that often occurs this time of year. At the Memorial Shooting Center in Houston, which shares a building with a church, managers said they sold out of assault weapons a day after the election and are now adding new orders, at more than $1,000 each, to a monthlong waiting list. In Colorado, state authorities said they set a record for background checks on gun purchasers on the Saturday before the election—and the requests have been growing ever since.

And in Obama’s home state of Illinois, business at gun stores is brisk. "We’ve had a lot of people concerned because our president-elect is extremely anti-gun and so is his running mate," said Jerry Bricco, owner of 1st Class Firearms in north suburban Zion. "They’re afraid of future gun bans and what you will be allowed to get." Not every gun enthusiast is so worried. Mark Greene, a hunter and member of Gun Owners for Obama who led a grass-roots campaign for the Democrat in Tarrant County, Texas, said he regarded fears of a looming ban on assault weapons as unfounded.

"People are being pretty reactionary," Greene said. "There’s a small contingent of folks in and out of the gun-owning community concerned that Obama’s election is such a revolutionary change that it could portend mayhem. I think it’s hysteria." Obama’s record on gun rights is conflicting enough to give ammunition to either side.

His campaign Web site said he "respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms" and promised that he would "protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport and use guns." Seeking to reassure gun owners, Obama told a campaign audience in Ohio in October: "I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away.

I won’t take your handgun away." But Obama also has said he favors "common sense" gun laws, and as an Illinois state legislator he voted to support a ban on semiautomatic assault weapons and tighter restrictions on all firearms. He has said in the past that he opposes allowing gun owners to carry concealed weapons. And Obama’s controversial comment last April that some rural Americans "cling to guns or religion" in difficult times suggested to many gun owners that he was fundamentally hostile toward them.

The sum of those positions prompted the National Rifle Association to warn its members during the campaign that Obama "would be the most anti-gun president in American history." Obama "says he’s in favor of common-sense gun laws," Irwin said. "Well, what people up north think is common sense is something different from us down here in Texas.

The criminals have all this illegal stuff. I don’t want to fight them with a handgun if I can get an AK. I’m entitled to that. I should be able to defend my home." One expert sees a darker motive driving some post-election gun purchasers. "Why are white people buying assault weapons?" said Ben Agger, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Arlington who wrote a book about the Virginia Tech slayings.

"I almost hate to say it, but there is a deep-seated fear of the armed black man, because Obama now commands the military and other instruments of the justice system. They are afraid Obama will exact retribution for the very deep-seated legacy of slavery." Tribune reporter James Kimberly contributed to this report from Chicago. end

Born Michel’le Toussaint she is of Louisiana Creole heritage and a very talented R&B singer, and has a strong voice when she sings. When she speaks she has a squeaky child like voice that often that is different from her strong vocal ability. She was once the girlfriend of music producer Dr. Dre and they had a son together named Marcel. In the late 1980s she was singed to ruthless records, rapper Easy E owned ruthless records.

In 1989 she released her first album titled Michel’le which was produced by DR Dre. The album contained the song no more lies, and the hit singles “something in my heart and nicety”. In 1998 she released her second album “Hung Jury” but it created little attention and there was no number one hit song. When DR Dre left Death Row records Michel’le and Dre went their separate ways. Born Michel’le Toussaint she is of Louisiana Creole heritage. I feel that Michel’le does not get the right types of songs to sing.

In other words she has suffered from not having good writers write songs that will produce hits. And, she has not written any new number one hit songs on her own and put them on and album either. This may change in the future if she puts out another album or more songs. She is definitely talented.

Personally I believe that some whites who were racists also voted for Obama. Think about it, all of those whites who where conservatives, and voted for Barack Obama usually vote conservative, there is no doubt that some where probably racist. They chose Obama over the white conservative republican candidate John McCain.

What motivated them where a number of factors, the Iraq war, disagreement with some of the laws that president Bush got passed, and bad economy especially bad economy.
Some of them had personal reasons that motivated them to vote for Obama.

Among all those conservative whites who voted for Obama some of them had to have been racist. Not all just some.

Chance: Affirmative action will naturally disappear as the years roll on. Americans will determine when it should be removed in every state or maybe someday the government will do it with a federal law. It will not be around forever, but it has served a good purpose and the government was justified in creating it and signing it into law.

After Colorado loss, Ward Connerly may pull the plug on affirmative-action bans

The Colorado independent

By Naomi Zeveloff 11/7/08 7:47 AM Coloradoindependent.com

California businessman Ward Connerly says he is moving on to other issues after the defeat of his anti-affirmative action ballot measure. (Photo/American Civil Rights Institute)

Anti-affirmative-action guru Ward Connerly will likely halt his nationwide push to end race and gender preferences. Connerly, a part black California businessman, spoke with the Colorado Independent an hour after Amendment 46 toppled by an extremely thin margin.

The so-called Colorado Civil Rights Initiative was the first Connerly amendment to flop after making it onto a state ballot. It was also a key measure in Connerly’s Super Tuesday for Equal Rights campaign, a nationwide thrust to dismantle affirmative action programs in five states this year. In three of those states, the measure failed to make it onto the ballot, and Thursday, after a feverishly close tally, it collapsed in Colorado. Nebraska was the only state this year to approve the proposal.

In a wide-ranging, hour-long phone interview with The Colorado Independent, Connerly said he now intends to turn his focus to prison reform. He downplayed the importance of Colorado’s rejection of a ban on affirmative action programs, and also weighed in on President-elect Barack Obama’s historic win.

When asked how he planned to proceed now that Colorado voters had rejected Amendment 46, Connerly said that he might curb his 12-year-long effort, which produced wins in California, Michigan and Washington state in years past and in Nebraska this year. “Well, I love to read. I love to write. I do have other interests,” he said. “I would like to pursue those things. I would rather do those things than get involved in these initiatives.”

“Contrary to what is said, I don’t need this for my financial well-being. I don’t need it for my psychological well-being,” he added, referring to an allegation that he paid himself $7 million from the two nonprofits that funded his Super Tuesday for Equal Rights campaign. Connerly spent more than $350,000 in Colorado this year, according to campaign finance reports.

But rather than continue the fight against racial preferences, Connerly said he will focus on reforming the criminal justice system. He has developed a passion for the issue because, he said, “I know someone for whom I have great affection who is in this situation. I had to learn a lot more about the system than I ever knew before.”

Connerly said that in the past year, he has contributed “frequently and heavily” to Families against Mandatory Minimums, a national organization dedicated to changing sentencing laws. And he is a proponent of alternatives to incarceration, such as ankle monitors for some convicts.

“I don’t want to mislead you. I don’t want to say I am no longer going to be interested in race equality in our public policies,” he said. “I think this whole business of what we are doing to people who are incarcerated is far more pressing.”

However, Connerly would not concede that the weak returns over his “Super Tuesday” efforts to dismantle affirmative action prompted him to turn his focus to another issue. In fact he went back and forth on characterizing the Amendment 46 result as a loss.

“I sort of felt Wednesday morning at 4:15 a.m. that this would probably be defeated, and I congratulate the other side. We have a different perspective, and they waged a vigorous campaign. It got ugly with the character assassination, and I wish they hadn’t done that,” he said, referring to two Vote No radio ads that called Connerly a “carpetbagger” and were later pulled from the airwaves.

But then he said: “It is up to Jessica Peck Corry and others as to when or if they concede. I am proud of the campaign they waged. The people of Colorado have spoken, and with roughly a million votes on each side, it is hard to say that the issue is settled.” Connerly also credited Corry, the director of the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, with convincing him to launch the proposal in Colorado. Corry did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment. But she refused to admit defeat in a Denver Post article, saying she wanted to wait for the last returns. Late Thursday afternoon, the Rocky Mountain News called the election with 96 percent of the votes in; 50.6 percent of Colorado voters said “no” while 49.4 said “yes.”

In spite of his ambiguity, Connerly did say that Amendment 46 — which performed astoundingly well in polls before the election — failed because Colorado voters were overwhelmed with the massive ballot.

“I think that the fact that there were so many initiatives on the ballot spoke volumes more about this issue than anything else,” he said. “There was a lot of voter fatigue in my view, and they said, ‘Let’s preserve the status quo,’ and they voted ‘no.’”

“A 50-50 vote does not tell either side anything at all. Nothing,” he added, when asked about the legacy of a Colorado loss. “I would not expect the opposition to run off the battlefield if the vote had been 50-50. Nor should they expect us to run away because because of the outcome that there is. You can’t make any decisions based on that kind of situation. Especially in view of the fact that Nebraska won as handily as it did.” Nebraska’s measure passed, 58 percent to 42 percent.

Connerly also said that Obama’s supporters in Colorado likely turned out against his initiative. “I believe that when you have a self-professed, quote, progressive running for president, and he is trying to turn out votes, well, on Election Day a number of those who never voted before were black, Latino and young. That’s what the exit polls clearly showed. Those people are more likely to be opposed to ending what is loosely called affirmative action. I think that is just indisputable.”

Connerly voted for Republican presidential candidate John McCain and said he donated $2,300 to his campaign, even though he was disappointed that McCain showed only lukewarm support for the anti-affirmative-action project. Connerly also said he gave $500 to Obama during the primary because he “was hopeful that Sen. Obama would push the ball up the field a little bit in trying to reduce America’s preoccupation with race.”

Connerly acknowledged the import of Obama’s victory: “This is a defining moment in American history, especially for black people. I didn’t cry as Jesse Jackson did Tuesday night as he witnessed this marvelous, marvelous moment with Sen. Obama making his acceptance speech. I didn’t cry. But I can understand the tears. My heart sang as much as everyone else’s.”

He said he was heartened to hear Obama, who supports affirmative action, tell ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in a 2007 interview that he doesn’t expect his well-off daughters to receive preferential treatment when they apply to universities. “We don’t benefit when people believe our skin color has something to do with who we are,” said Connerly. “Even when society thinks it is doing it for a good reason. You are not helping me. That is my view.”

Colorado voters, on the other hand, think affirmative action still has value. And Connerly won’t be back anytime soon to convince them otherwise.

“I am a pretty active guy, even at 69. And there are other things I would like to accomplish in my life,” he said. “For me to go and try to involve the Colorado Legislature in this issue, well that is not on my list of 100 things I would like to do.”

Stay tuned for more coverage of Colorado’s Amendment 46.

]]>https://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/after-colorado-loss-ward-connerly-may-pull-the-plug-on-affirmative-action-bans/feed/0ChanceCalifornia businessman Ward Connerly says he is moving on to other issues after the defeat of his anti-affirmative action ballot measure. (Photo/American Civil Rights Institute)Shelby Steele Is Jealous Of Obamahttps://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/shelby-steele-is-jealous-of-obama/
https://chancellorfiles.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/shelby-steele-is-jealous-of-obama/#commentsMon, 10 Nov 2008 12:49:51 +0000http://chancellorfiles.com/blog1/2008/11/10/shelby-steele-is-jealous-of-obama/Shelby Steele Is Jealous Of Obama

Shelby Steel is biracial and Barack Obama is biracial also, Steele seems to have some hidden dislike of Obama. He is always trying to find fault with Obama’s. I feel that Steele is jealous of Barack Obama’s fame and him being accepted by large numbers of both whites and blacks. He is also jealous because Obama is accepted by many white conservatives and many white who are conservative voted for him.

Shelby is a conservative writer/author who constantly attacks Obama in columns and interviews. He has little good to say about Obama, but many white conservatives have a lot of good to say about him. Steele is like many uncle Toms and angry blacks who attack black America to get some benefits from white conservatives. Benefits like book deals, interviews on conservative talk shows and television shows like Rush Limbaugh, jobs as columnist or bloggers, lecture circuit etc.

But now the reality is this, many republican conservative whites like Obama. Obama is not even an African American, his white mother was an American and father was a black man from Kenya, Africa. So his black ancestry is not of being a descendant of the survivor of black slaves. He therefore, is not an African American.

White conservative liked Obama’s ideas, opinions on various topics, charm, charisma, freshness, etc and therefore voted for him on Election Day. Steele and certain other angry black conservative bloggers, columnists, and voters are angry because white American conservatives have rejected them. Whites don’t view blacks and biracials who are mixed with black like Steele too highly, even though these types of blacks are conservative.

They view these as lower type people, because whites understand the motives of these types of blacks who pander to whites by talking bad about blacks to gain some benefits from whites. Yes conservative whites give them benefits, but at the same time they understand that — there is a moral short coming in these types of blacks like Shelby Steele who likes to pander.

Ask yourself, how come many black conservatives don’t run for the republican presidential nomination? It is because they know that many white conservatives will not vote for them. Steele is biracial just like Obama is biracial. How come Steele didn’t run for the republican presidential nomination? It probably is not because he didn’t want to. But because he knew it would have been a waste of time. He would not have been taken seriously by white conservatives and seen as smart as the white republican conservative candidates. Therefore, Steele would have been seen as semi inferior to the white candidates meaning white conservatives would have more trust in the intellect of a white man than a black conservative like Steele.

This that I’m saying is not false. Black conservative Allan Keyes is very intelligent and has been complimented for being very erudite. He ran for president in 1996, 2000, and 2008 he was never seen as a serious nominee by white conservatives and they always picked someone else instead of Keys. In August 2008 the Illinois Republican party asked Keyes to run against Barack Obama for the senate. Keyes lost the race and Obama became a senator. Keyes was intelligent and well educated but like many black conservatives he was not taken seriously by white conservative voters during his presidential run. Steele and blacks of his type can’t understand why whites regardless of their political background prefer Obama. It has nothing to do with politics only, it has to do with a uniqueness that Obama has when it comes to character.

He does not come across as angry, threatening, negative, anti white or anti any race, hate blacks, and Uncle Tom, pro black or pro white only. He offers white conservative a chance to express the good side of themselves that they have always wanted to express but couldn’t because most black or non white politicians they have met or seen do shoe have the unique character qualities that make white conservative feel comfortable showing the generous and compassionate side of themselves.

Martin Luther King jr. had unique character qualities (virtues) that many whites liked and this is what helped him win the civil rights movement. Whites will reciprocate with people who display these characteristics. Well Shelby Steele, many blacks like him, and many members of other ethnic groups don’t show these characteristics or else they would have gotten the same reaction from whites and other ethnic grounds that Obama gets.

This shows that there is a moral short coming on Shelby’s side. Jealousy is very painful and it is a sickness that eats away at the soul. Steele should be proud that Obama showed him that you don’t have to be a uncle Tom or lower type black conservative criticizing black to get benefits from whites in order to be admired by whites.

In this undated handout photo released by Bob Kitts, contractor Kitts, left, and homeowner Amanda Reece pose with money found at Reece’s home in Cleveland. The discovery amounted to little more than grief for Kitts, who couldn’t agree on how to split the money with Reece.

CLEVELAND – A contractor who found $182,000 in Depression-era currency hidden in a bathroom wall has ended up with only a few thousand dollars, but he feels some vindication.

The windfall discovery amounted to little more than grief for contractor Bob Kitts, who couldn’t agree on how to split the money with homeowner Amanda Reece.

It didn’t help Reece much, either. She testified in a deposition that she was considering bankruptcy and that a bank recently foreclosed on one of her properties.

And 21 descendants of Patrick Dunne — the wealthy businessman who stashed the money that was minted in a time of bank collapses and joblessness — will each get a mere fraction of the find.

"If these two individuals had sat down and resolved their disputes and divided the money, the heirs would have had no knowledge of it," said attorney Gid Marcinkevicius, who represents the Dunne estate. "Because they were not able to sit down and divide it in a rational way, they both lost."

Kitts was tearing the bathroom walls out of an 83-year-old home near Lake Erie in 2006 when he discovered two green metal lockboxes suspended inside a wall below the medicine chest, hanging from a wire. Inside were white envelopes with the return address for "P. Dunne News Agency."

"I ripped the corner off of one," Kitts said during a deposition in a lawsuit filed by Dunne’s estate. "I saw a 50 and got a little dizzy."

He called Reece, a former high school classmate who had hired him for a remodeling project.

They counted the cash and posed for photographs, both grinning like lottery jackpot winners.

But how to share? She offered 10 percent. He wanted 40 percent. From there things went sour.

A month after The Plain Dealer reported on the case in December 2007, Dunne’s estate got involved, suing for the right to the money.

By then there was little left to claim.

Reece testified in a deposition that she spent about $14,000 on a trip to Hawaii and had sold some of the rare late 1920s bills. She said about $60,000 was stolen from a shoe box in her closet but testified that she never reported the theft to police.

Kitts said Reece accused him of stealing the money and began leaving him threatening phone messages. Marcinkevicius doesn’t believe the money was stolen but said he couldn’t prove otherwise.

Reece’s phone number has been disconnected, and her attorney Robert Lazzaro did not return a call seeking comment. There were no court records showing that Reece had filed for bankruptcy.

Kitts said he lost a lot of business because media reports on the case portrayed him as greedy, but he feels vindicated by the court’s decision to give him a share.

"I was not the bad guy that everybody made me out to be," Kitts said. "I didn’t do anything wrong."

He’s often asked why he didn’t keep his mouth shut and pocket the money. He says he wasn’t raised that way.

"It was a neat experience, something that won’t happen again," Kitts said. "In that regard, it was pretty fascinating; seeing that amount of money in front of you was breathtaking. In that regard, I don’t regret it.

"The threats and all — that’s the part that makes you wish it never happened."

Have ever wondered what brought dark skin black men into style in America? They have only been in style since the 1990s. Light skin black men have always been in style in America. But dark skin black men and caramel brown skin black men have never really been in style on a major level in American society.

I will admit that caramel brown black men always been considered more in style than dark skin black men, but not as in style as light skin black men, yet above darker men.
Carmel brown skin black men have always occupied a place in the middle.

The pretty light skin has always been seen as prettier, handsome, and more intelligent. When I say light skin, I am talking about some who has caramel beige, yellow, beige, tan, or whitish skin. From slavery up until the 1980s light skin was seen as the most in style look for black men and women.

What brought dark skin black men and women into style was rap music. Rap music is a part of the hip hop culture, and in the late 1980s most of the hip hop artists were caramel brown skin and dark skin.

Hip hop took the world by storm and became popular fast. In the late 1980s gangster (gangsta) rap came out with groups like N.W.A. and Easy E. When the 1990s came around gantsa rap had replaced conscious rap and other rap type style as the most listened to rap.

Gangsta rap portrayed an image of a tough strong young black man and who often was dark skin or Caramel brown skin in rap videos. Most of the Gangsta rappers themselves on the early to mid 1990s were either dark skin or caramel brown skin.

This made darker black men and caramel brown black men look more masculine and popular in the eyes of Hip hop fans. LL cool Jay, Kool Moe D, Big Daddy Cane, Tupac (2pac), Biggie smalls, Snoop Dog, MOB Deep, and many other hip hop artist who portrayed a manly tough and sexy image helped dark skin blacks become popular in the eyes of the world.

So Hip Hop has done some good, and should be appreciated for the good it has done.